Summer Clouds

Summer Clouds

128 mins | Drama | Sept. 2, 1958

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

Summer Clouds

128 mins | Drama | Sept. 2, 1958

Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 鰯雲
Directors Eizo Sugawa, Mikio Naruse
Writers Tsutou Wada, Shinobu Hashimoto

Cast

Yôko Tsukasa

as Miciko

Isao Kimura

as Okawa

Keiju Kobayashi

as Hatsuji

Kumi Mizuno

as Hamako

Haruko Sugimura

as Mother

Chōko Iida

as Hidé

Hiroshi Tachikawa

as Shinji

Natsuko Kahara

as Yasue

Bontarō Miake

as Patron

Akemi Ueno

as Tetsuko